If You Are a Founder of a Company
- It is assumed that you have both an intellectual and financial commitment to the company, however, your primary commitment is to the University and your commitment to the company should not conflict with that obligation or conflict with any other university rules or regulations.
- You cannot serve in a management capacity for the company while a Stanford employee.
- You must not provide the company with early or exclusive access to the results of your research, unless those results come from a sponsored research project with the company.
- Your relationship to the company should not interfere with your primary obligations as a faculty member or University employee or conflict with any other university rules or regulations.
- You must keep your financial interests separate from your research and University obligations in order to:
- protect your students, trainees, and others whom you are responsible for directing, from undue influences or the compromise of academic freedoms;
- preserve the integrity of the research;
- cause no harm to human subjects used in your research; and
- see that any creations or discoveries that arise during the course of your research or scholarly activities are not pipelined to the company, and are disclosed in a timely fashion to the Office of Technology Licensing; and
- not allow your relationship to compromise the free exchange of ideas or delay or prohibit publications arising from your University activities.
- You must disclose this relationship in publications and public discussions of any of your research that is sponsored by the company or related to the company.
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